Programs at Casa Werma
La Meditacíon en la Vida Cotidiana/Meditation In Everyday Life
con Gabriela Córdova Novion
November 8 - 10, 2019
Casa Werma
Esta serie de cursos de meditacíon profundizan nuestra entendimiento de las enseñanzas de Shambhala y la práctica de meditacíon. Tanto con sesiones de meditacíon, grupos de discusión, pláticas y otras actividades, uno puede encontrar esa sincronicidad de cuerpo y mente que permite revelar nuestra estabilidad, claridad y fortaleza mental innatas.
From Sacred Outlook to Sacred Activism
con Acharya Martin (Marty) Janowitz
December 14 - 19, 2019
Casa Werma
This is a time when uncertainty, menace, and perhaps defenselessness are vivid sensations in our world, affecting us, others, and our environment near and far. What can we do as practitioners to be a force for peace, safety and compassion? What could enlightened engagement, protection and activism mean? The goal of this program is to stimulate and challenge us to engage powerfully and creatively in the emergence of a truly sustainable and basically good world - supporting, enduring and enriching personal communal and global pathways.
Releasing 2019, Embracing 2020: A Meditation and Writing Retreat
con Joan Kling, M.S.
December 28, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Casa Werma
In this meditation and writing retreat we will ceremonially release 2019 by writing "letters never to be sent" asking for forgiveness of actions and inactions of ourselves and those of others. We will tangibly embrace 2020 by asking the universe to manifest our specific hopes, desires and dreams. A local field trip and a fun New Year's Eve dinner celebration is also included.
Catalyzing Communities for a Regenerative World
con Kristen Victor, David McCullough and Kim Nadel
January 16 - 21, 2020
Casa Werma
We invite you to become global change agents by participating in real-time district-scaled sustainable community planning and innovative design implementing global sustainability initiatives including Mexico’s own sustainable development policies and incentives. In this retreat we will immerse ourselves in local culture, movement and meditation, interactive placemaking, visualization, local cuisine and field trips. Carry away leadership skills in the empowerment of actualizing sustainable communities where you live.
Women’s Wisdom Weekthun
con Shastri Sandra Ladley
January 25 - February 1, 2020
Casa Werma
This retreat is for women to come together in a beautiful setting surrounded by lush gardens to experience deep meditation practice, sacred community and creative expression. We will have the opportunity to connect deeply with ourselves with the aspiration to return home refreshed with the strength, passion and personal alignment to meet these challenging times with an open heart and mind.
Joyful Wisdom: A Maitri-Mahamudra Retreat for Older Women
con Acharya Susan Gillis Chapman
February 8 - 15, 2020
Casa Werma
Let's warm up the space of traditional mahamudra investigations by compassionately exploring, healing and transforming the juicy and challenging emotions triggered by our life stories.
Yeshe Tsogyal: The Inseparable Union of Feminine and Masculine Principles
con Acharya Melissa Moore
February 29 - March 7, 2020
Casa Werma
This week-long practice intensive will evoke and celebrate the life and teachings of Yeshe Tsogyal.
Limitless Ayatanas: Scorpion Seal and Werma Practice Intensive
con Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown
March 17 - 24, 2020
Casa Werma
Discovering the Sacredness of Sense Perceptions through the Werma Sadhana. One of the most provocative teachings in the Werma Sadhana is that our ayatanas, or sense gates, are limitless. This program introduces the profundity of these teachings through Werma practice, talks, and guided sensory exercises drawn from the Buddhist and Shambhala traditions. We will also explore how to manifest Werma practices in our daily lives.
EcoDharma: Rediscovering Our Environmental Wisdom
con Dr. Pasquale Verdicchio and Mayela Manasjan
April 4 - 9, 2020
Casa Werma
In this program we will explore the links between ecology and dharma through a variety of readings, meditation, and contemplation exercises. We will also learn about our climate crisis, evaluate our personal carbon emissions and create our own compassionate climate action plans.
Riding the Energy of Emotions
con Acharya Dale Asrael
April 15 - 22, 2020
Casa Werma
Our human emotions can be a spiral of confusion or a vehicle of awakening. This retreat engages practices drawn from Buddhist meditation which reveal the wisdom inherent within the direct experience of emotional energy. Meditation, contemplative movement, inquiry, and exploration of sense perceptions form the basis of this retreat.
